Remembering Emmett Till
Author Dave Tell gave several accounts of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and how this history is remembered and commemorated in the South. This talk was part of the University of Mary Wash…
365 viewsAuthor Dave Tell gave several accounts of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and how this history is remembered and commemorated in the South. This talk was part of the University of Mary Wash…
365 viewsLycoming College history professor Sarah Silkey recounted journalist and civil rights activist Ida. B. Well’s 1893-94 anti-lynching campaigns and her attempts to gain support from abolitioni…
111 viewsKeith O’Brien talked about female pilots in the 1920s who broke into the male-dominated sport of airplane racing. This talk was part of the University of Mary Washington’s “Great Lives” lect…
582 viewsUniversity of Connecticut professor emeritus Robert Gross talked about 19th century Concord, Massachusetts, which was home to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, a…
251 viewsYale University professor Beverly Gage talked about long time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s life and work in her 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. This talk was part of the “Great Live…
436 viewsJohnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992 - with millions of Americans tuning in each night. Stephen Farnsworth examined Carson’s use of political humor and how it shaped the n…
1,400 viewsUniversity of Mary Washington professor Stephen Farnsworth talked about actor Charlie Chaplin and the political dynamics of his films. This talk was part of the University of Mary Washington…
303 viewsAuthor Eric Jay Dolin provided a history of piracy in the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries. This talk was part of the University of Mary Washington’s “Great Lives” lecture series in F…
518 viewsAuthor Kirstin Downey talked about her biography of Frances Perkins, Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of labor and the first female Cabinet secretary. This talk was part of the University of M…
404 viewsUniversity of Mary Washington History Professor William Crawley talked about Franklin Roosevelt’s personality, New Deal programs, World War II leadership, and his admirers and critics in thi…
547 viewsUniversity of Mary Washington history professor emeritus William Crawley discussed the presidency of John F. Kennedy and the myths that surround him. This video is courtesy of the university…
494 viewsUniversity of Mary Washington history professor William Crawley discussed Theodore Roosevelt’s life and legacy, with a particular focus on his presidency. The University of Mary Washington h…
1,630 viewsScience writer Nathalia Holt gave an illustrated talk about women mathematicians and engineers known as “human computers” who were recruited in the 1940s and 1950s to work at the Jet Propuls…
702 viewsLillian Hellman was a 20th-century playwright, best known for her play, The Children’s Hour. Gregg Stull shared her life story and the controversies surrounding her work. Mr. Stull is chair …
403 viewsHoratio Alger, Jr. was a 19th century writer and novelist. He is best known for his “rags to riches” stories centered around young boys working their way out of poverty. Historian Jack Bales…
206 viewsUniversity of Mary Washington English Professor Gary Richards discussed the lives and literary impacts of Southern authors Zora Neale Hurston and Eudora Welty. This video, which is from a “G…
272 viewsArt Buchwald was a humorist who frequently satirized politics. His Pulitzer Prize winning column was syndicated in over 500 newspapers. Author and historical researcher Michael Hill told the…
429 viewsJames Haley, author of Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii, talked about the life of musician, composer, and author Liliuokalani, the last Queen of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Mr. Haley also to…
2,525 viewsUniversity of Mary Washington history Professor Porter Blakemore evaluated the military career of General Douglas MacArthur, from his West Point graduation in 1903 to being relieved of comma…
289 viewsJames Monroe and George Washington shared a bond forged in the Revolutionary War. Each man would serve his country as president. But the politics of the young nation drove a wedge between th…
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